Y’all are remembering Mason outscheming the hell out of Butch and assuming that means Vandy has a good defense. You’re talking about a team that’s given up 495 yards per game in SEC play. Missouri, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and Ole Miss all rolled up 500+, and only Kentucky has been held below 440. Vanderbilt is not a juggernaut. They do actually appear to have a competent offense, but it’s not quite as tough as Missouri’s is, and we won’t play our worst game of the season two weeks in a row. Vanderbilt can absolutely still beat us, but I don’t think Pruitt’s guys are just going to roll over with a bowl within reach the way we might’ve seen under the last two coaches. Our health and who can force the other to kick field goals will be the biggest factors, but I think we get it done. Vols 24 Vandy 20 $.02.
As is standard for head guy at UT, lose to Vandy and you can gtfo. If Pruitt is going to be a championship caliber coach, this is a game he finds a way to win. Losing to Vandy is inexcusable, especially with a bowl game on the line.
It’s easy to say that but Vanderbilt is more developed on both lines of scrimmage than us. That in itself makes it a tall order. Not impossible.
That’s 3 really good offenses, an offense coached by Dan Mullen, and an average SCe offense. We are the 4th worst P5 offense in the country, barely ahead of the likes of Kansas and Rutgers.
Our offense isn’t good, but we shouldn’t pretend the defense we’re facing this week is anything special. It’s arguably the worst P5 defense we’ve faced all season. Now I don’t have a lot of faith in us to win a shootout, but scoring in the mid-20s is entirely attainable
I have 2 tiers of predictions: If JG and Calloway are full-go and healthy and the OL/Front-7 decide to show up: UT 24 - Vandy 10 If JG and/or Calloway are out and the OL/Front-7 take the night off: Vandy 21 - UT 7 This team is bipolar and Vandy will be jacked up for this game. We will have our hands full and the sorry ass state of this team says we need, IMO, an A game to beat [uck fay]ing Vandy.
Well, we have been on a roll the last few years about setting ignominious records, so I am a bit worried.
I'm not sure we win this one either. I haven't seen Vandy play, but they seem to do what is expected of them, score some points against teams they're supposed to beat. I think they score at least 28 on us, we go for 17. And I don't have to think about Vols football for a couple of months.
I don't know if we win, but I think how the team comes out and how prepared they are will tell us a lot. This might be the most important game of the year. The difference between making a bowl game and not is literally going to be the slurping of, or the first large he-isn't-ready-for-this-stage for Pruitt by the media. Which is pretty important - especially for recruiting. I'm not saying we're damned if we lose, or that Pruitt will be a failure - I personally believe he's shown a lot with the Ky and Barn wins. But it will make recruiting so much easier, and keep the media and fan base a lot more consolidated, if we win. This game is a damn crapshoot. We're wildly inconsistent. Have been all year. But the one thing Dooley was right about, was that Tennessee always kicks the shit out of Vanderbilt. Vols win, a little easier than everyone expects, 28-7 - my only reasoning for this is, we had a shitty performance last week, maybe the pendulum swings.
We're a shitty team still learning how to compete that can get streaky. I think we either boat race them or we get our ass kick bad. I just don't see much middle ground.
